Good Schools: The Seattle Public School System, 1901-1930

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In Good Schools, educator Bryce E. Nelson provides a new viewpoint on Seattle’s necessary early years of growth, from 1901 to 1930, emphasizing the central roles of Superintendent Frank Cooper and the Seattle school board in forging a major urban public school system.

Nelson has gone straight away to the journals, newspapers, and documents of the time, making an investment his interpretation with a vivid sense of grass-roots opinion in Seattle. Specializing in the clash between two different views of schooling–the progressive vision of Frank Cooper and that of his fiscally and ideologically conservative critics in the 1920s–he presents a compelling and perceptive social, political, and institutional history of Seattle’s public schools. In the larger context of progressive era schooling, Nelson provides insight into the debate between liberal and conservative views of education, a recurring theme within twentieth-century American school history.

The school system was once the key to Seattle’s progressive era, the measure of the city’s morale and its aspirations. Through a singular coalition–political, cconomic, and social–Seattle’s school system became an outstanding national example of progressivism demonstrating what public schooling, in its origins as an urban institution, could accomplish. Central to this development was once Frank Cooper’s vision of small neighborhood schools and classes, in response to the model of a home, designed to influence character and citizenship in addition to to teach academic skills. As well as, the school board created an extensive social welfare program. Over two decades, this large, systematic endeavor was once used by many of us, both children and adults. Taxpayers spent considerable sums and expected a good return.

Nelson traces changing views of curriculum and pedagogy related to World War I and the pressures of urban growth. he measures Frank Cooper’s vision of progressive education against emergent postwar concepts of ability grouping, large classes, and hierarchical efficiency in management of the public schools.

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